On the other side, Xia De didn't know that because he left home in such a hurry, although he didn't leave anything behind, he took some extra things with him.
He was now crawling on the ground, holding his breath, enduring the pain in his head and listening to the sharp and piercing song.
The source of the singing was in front of them. The plants in the center of the cornfield were all flattened, forming a circular area. Dozens of low-rise secret servants in black robes were dancing wildly and singing in the center of the cornfield around a bonfire made of human bones.
They only had one eye on their faces, but they were still able to make sounds. The bonfire was a deeper black, deeper than the surrounding darkness. Just by looking at it, I could instinctively feel fear and danger.
It seemed as if everything in the world could fall into eternal sleep in the black bonfire in the middle of the cornfield. The slightly trembling black flame seemed to represent the end of everything.
If it weren't for the divine warmth in his soul, which kept warming Shade, he would have probably fallen asleep immediately and fallen into eternal sleep. After looking away, his soul seemed to still feel the coldness, silence and emptiness of that moment.
"What is this?"
Xia De asked quietly in his heart, but got no answer. He raised his head again and looked slightly to the left through the gap between the corn stalks. There was a somewhat illusory space on the left side of the circular open space.
This is the spatial fracture caused by the darkness melting the space. Once you enter that area, you will be transferred to other locations in the dark realm.
“Luvia’s divination can’t be for us to deal with these demons. So, the divination means that we can go to another location through this spatial anomaly... Can we appear directly in front of Darkness? No, we shouldn’t be so lucky.”
Xia De deduced in his mind and thought about it again with his eyes narrowed.
If he was alone, he only needed to rush out of the cornfield and use Ragley's jump to step forward before the demons could react. He would be able to enter the abnormal space area before being attacked to death.
But he had Luvia by his side, and Shade had no idea where he would appear after passing that special area, or whether he would need to fight immediately afterwards.
"I'll go back and discuss this with Luvia, but it's good news for now."
He listened to the shrill, blasphemous song that prayed to the dark god for power, and crawled back carefully.
The scene of the devil praying in the open space was blocked by dense black corn stalks. Shade moved back little by little, and then heard the singing gradually become more crazy.
I suddenly had a bad feeling in my heart, and at the same time, the voice in my heart was telling me that the whispers around me were becoming stronger and stronger.
Bow your head!
Xia De, who had already climbed dozens of feet, suddenly felt a cold wind flying over his head.
The area affected by the dark bonfire of human bones expanded as the ceremony progressed. Amid the howling of the servants of secrecy, more corn stalks fell down, expanding the area of the ceremony venue.
Thus, Xia De, who was hiding in it, was exposed.
He patted the dirt off his body and stood up. The singing in his ears stopped. He looked up and saw dozens of pupils looking at him. He didn't know if it was because his eyes had adapted to seeing in the dark, but with the help of eye drops, Xia De could see more and more.
"Really? I thought the reason I was discovered was because I accidentally broke a branch or something ridiculous like that."
He had no fear or terror. He put the leaf of eternal youth that originally belonged to Dorothy into his mouth, kissed the demon hunting seal on his hand, and drew out the moonlight greatsword whose light was severely restricted from the air with his right hand.
The appearance of the two-handed sword seemed to stimulate the demons beside the campfire. They all let out sharp cries, but did not charge towards Shad.
The demon's body actually melted in the black flames. The flowing darkness finally gathered together and finally reconstructed a humanoid creature wearing a black robe, a head taller than Shad, in front of the campfire.
He also had only one vertical pupil on his face, but there was a dark crack in the lower half of his vertical oval face, which was as white as white bread.
The slit that looked like a mouth opened:
"What do I see? The moon, such pure moonlight!"
This is the language of demons, a demon language that is more blasphemous and more powerful than the demon language used by the servants of the secret:
"Welcome to the realm of darkness!"
With a sharp laugh, it turned around and simultaneously pulled out long, thin white human bones from the bonfire behind it with both hands. It crossed them in front of its chest and struck them against each other. As the black flames wrapped around the bones, it turned its face to the black sky and let out the sharpest roar yet:
"Please, sleep here in peace!"
"Wait, you know the moonlight on me?"
Xia De stretched out his empty left hand and made a pause motion, but in fact he was not looking for an answer at all. Instead, he pointed forward while stretching out his hand, and narrowed his eyes slightly:
"Mind Explosion!"
The three crystals on the crystal ring emitted light at the same time, and waves that could not be observed by the naked eye radiated from the fingertips. The demon holding the black fire human bone stood stiffly in front of the campfire. Shade rushed forward with a sword in one hand, entered the demon's body 10 meters away, and then disappeared, and then appeared from the top of the opponent's head with both hands holding the sword:
"Oh!"
The Moonlight Greatsword emitted a stronger light as the spirit of Shade was injected and the elements fluctuated. But the demon, who was frozen in place, suddenly raised his hand, crossed the black fire bones to block the Moonlight Greatsword, and then opened his mouth towards Shade's head, and a deep black shock wave gushed out.
"not good."
The sword was held upright and fell, blocking the deeper darkness against the black background. The demon hunting seal on his right hand glowed slightly, causing a more complex rune chain to vaguely appear on the transparent silver sword.
But even so, the darkness that gushed out of the demon's mouth still shattered the silver sword and then hit Shad's chest.
He was knocked far away in severe pain, and after landing on the edge of a circular cornfield, he immediately touched himself to trigger the effect of false immortality.
He stood up with difficulty, holding onto the ground. In addition to the taste of the Eternal Youth Leaves, his mouth also tasted of blood. He quickly took out the test tube and drank a mouthful of the water stained with silver light. There was no need to waste the Eternal Youth Leaves now.
Just one encounter almost brought Shad to the brink of death. This demon formed by the fusion of several hidden servants was equivalent to a 6th or even 7th ring human middle-ring warlock.
Although Shad has the Demon Hunting Seal, he is suppressed in the dark realm, while the demons are positively affected by the environment.
"Yes, I recognize the moonlight on you. A mortal favored by the God of Silver Moon, such pure light can almost make you a sacrifice to that great sage."
The information revealed by the blasphemous words frightened Shad somewhat, and he stood up, leaning on his sword;
"You actually know the ancient god of the moon, Silver Moon Sage?"
"Before we became demons, we were the elemental followers of the ancient god, the Darkness. Even though individuals are a race, a race is also an individual."
The demon holding the black fire human bone laughed wildly and looked at Shade:
"We were ordered to guard the corpse of the ancient demon killed by the gods. After the ancient gods left, the material world has undergone tens of thousands of years of changes, and we have become different. It has been so long, and the memories of the past in the collective memory are almost gone, but I still remember this moonlight, so pure, so fascinating. If you can sleep here, I believe this darkness will become more powerful."
"Then do you see what I am?"
Shade asked immediately.
"You~"
The devil laughed wildly, holding high the two human bones in his hands, and then suddenly disappeared in front of the campfire.
"Damn it, these relics' derivative individuals can move in the dark!"
Shade was aware of the sound of wind behind him, and the blasphemous words were heard by Shade as the weapon fell:
"How do I know what you are?"
The black fire human bones bombarded Shad's head, but Shad's figure disappeared again.
The vertical-pupiled, laughing demon melted into the darkness again and appeared behind Shade, whose figure had appeared.
Shade, who was well prepared, threw out his right fist, and the fist with the Demon Hunting Seal hit the opponent's face directly. The demon wanted to dissolve into the darkness again, but although the activated space stabilization halo could not expel the dark domain, it could prohibit any existence other than Shade from using space power around him.
Bang!
The punch still missed the target, and the demon's left hand dropped the weapon and grasped Shade's fist. When the seal touched the opponent's hand, thick smoke with a foul smell immediately rose, but the vertical pupil demon didn't seem to care at all:
"Demon Hunting Seal? Sure enough, every time we show up, these rings appear like dogs smelling a bone."
It grasped Shade's fist and lifted him up high. Shade drew out the greatsword with his left hand and stabbed it in the chest, but was immediately shattered into silver fragments by the black fire human bones thrown by the opponent.
“It’s not over yet!”
The left hand slashed in the air, and the silver moon slashed at the opponent's vertical pupil at close range. But the eyes just closed, and the eyelids blocked the moonlight. Then the left hand tried to use the mind blast again, but this time the demon who was well prepared laughed and hit Shade's head hard. Shade felt dizzy and blood flowed down his cheeks. The spirit could not hit, and the mind blast failed.
"Pure moonlight, but you don't know how to use it."
It dropped the weapon in its right hand, grabbed Shade's hands with each hand, lifted him up high, and then pulled him violently to both sides, as if it wanted to tear Shade in half.
Steam roared and the whistle sounded. The life ring of the second-ring warlock appeared completely behind Shade, which represented the strongest combat state of the ring warlock:
"Do you think I really can't use moonlight?"